Culling of Stratholme music!

So the other day I found myself listening (again) to the magnificent piece made for the Caverns of Times: Culling of Stratholme. I love it so much I could listen to it for hours; it is that good to my ears. The feeling of quickness, probable doom, sorrow in killing your own people while being pressed hard by the undead, are feelings that converge in this great piece of music. I always shed a few tears listening to this. There's so much raw emotion. I can picture Arthas killing his own people out of necessity, for the greater good, shedding tears and sobbing but biting it back as his men look up to him for an example; if he faltered, they would falter too and Mal'Ganis would be victorious...

But enough of that. There are some lyrics in it, probably italian or modified latin that I cannot understand, which have intrigued me for so long and could never make them out. Here's the link to the piece; the part in which these lyrics appear are from 2:15 to 3:45. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eghspESM7v8

So far, this is what I could get. I practically invented these words. Try to read them as you would italian or spanish:

Aye, I absolutely adore this music. I hope it's used elswhere in the future, as long as it's in a somewhat related area / situation / story.

Some random tidbit words I recognise translate into 'she was one, she was not'. Maybe the song is Arthas's emotions that Jaina didn't stand by him when he had to do this? That moment at the gates of Stratholme was the moment they parted ways forever, after all.

Last edited by Chonar; 2012-07-05 at 11:59 AM.

If World of Warcraft has taught me anything, it's that teaching a crowd something is far harder than teaching individuals.

Blizzard said (I don't have the quote, I'm sorry) that the human language is based on the sound of latin, but isn't latin. For instance, the song in the original Vanilla cinematic with the night elf and the dwarf and the bear? Yeah, it sounds like latin, but is just 'common'. There's possibly no direct translation for it other than whatever you'd like it to be

Blizzard said (I don't have the quote, I'm sorry) that the human language is based on the sound of latin, but isn't latin. For instance, the song in the original Vanilla cinematic with the night elf and the dwarf and the bear? Yeah, it sounds like latin, but is just 'common'. There's possibly no direct translation for it other than whatever you'd like it to be

Well, for example, the music in "Arthas my son" and all its other variations that found their way into other Arthas-related tracks are a combination of both Latin and "common."

However, it's not unassumable that Blizzard usually sticks with nonsense "common" in their songs, like many modern day instrumental groups do. Saves them from having to think of matching lyrics to translate.

“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow

The ingame explanation may be that the language is common, but WoW has a history of using straight up latin in its music. Then again, they've also used what sounds like Latin but is made up - so who knows.